You can probably leverage the preprocessor to make this a little bit easier.
This is one of the areas of investigation we know about - make authoring for
multiple languages/platforms/build-types easier than it is today.  It would
likely be a preprocessor extension of some sort.  Just need some time to
think it out.

Derek

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[mailto:[EMAIL PROTECTED] On Behalf Of Tony Hoyle
Sent: Monday, July 24, 2006 10:28 AM
To: wix-users@lists.sourceforge.net
Subject: Re: [WiX-users] Wix and 64-bit questions

Kelly Summerlin wrote:
> So it sounds like here that I should have separate GUIDs for 32-bit and 
> 64-bit <component> definitions even though the assemblies that are being 
> deployed are exactly the same. If this is the case, then I can 
> understand the need for separate GUIDs, but it sure makes maintaining 
> 32-bit and 64-bit installs twice as much work. Do I need to have dual 
> copies of my <component> definitions for 32 & 64 bit?

Pretty much.. that's what I do - maintain parallel trees for the (otherwise 
identical) 32bit and 64bit installers.  I don't use separate GUIDs simply 
because the maintenence of the trees is already enough overhead (ie. they're

out of sync at the moment and I need to schedule some time to work through
them).

I believe it's an MSI limitation rather than a wix one, but it would be nice

if the default changed depending on package type rather than being hardcoded

to win32..  going through 500 components copy/pasting "win64" into all of
them 
is a real drag.

Tony

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